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Welcome to the New Cheapskates Club Website - Tuesday 1st December 2015
Welcome to the new Cheapskates Club website.
It's been a long, long time coming and a lot of hard work. Thomas tried to calculate the hours we've all put into getting this website up and running, making sure we've caught everything from the old site before it disappears forever. He gave up at around 11,760! And yes, that's solid hours working on just moving stuff over, building new pages, checking links, stressing about moving the member database (oops I mean testing before moving), building and refining new tools, copying images, uploading data and a whole lot of other things we've been working on solidly for the last 9 weeks.
It's done now. Just a few final steps to quadruple check everything has shifted as it should have and we'll be well and truly established in our new home.
Like any move to a new home, there are a few things that are different about our new home.
The first is your log in. If you're reading this then you've seen that the Member Login box is located at the top right hand side of the website homepage.
Click on the member log in and a green box appears. Here you enter your email address (and it must be the one on record for you) and your password. You can also choose at this point to day logged in (don't do this if other people use your computer). You can also update your profile, check your membership details and find your membership expiry date by clicking on My Profile. Or you can choose to log out.
When you log in you'll be taken to the Member Centre homepage and that black member log in disappears. In its place you'll see your name and a log out link.
This page is not visible unless you are logged in. It also has direct links to all your Member Centre tools, or you'll find the major tools in the menu on the left hand side of your page.
I'll be adding lots of new tools and features over the next couple of months. There are so many I'm "drip feeding" them so you don't get overwhelmed so keep logging in regularly to find them.
The design has been streamlined, after hearing from Cheapskaters about what they'd like to see. That was a bit of an effort because there is a lot of information that had to be reorganised into more user-friendly chunks
I suggest everyone go and have another look at the Getting Started page, even if you're a long-time Cheapskater. A little reminder/refresher will help you find your way around our new home.
And as with all new homes, we'll be renovating and remodelling to get things just right. It's hard to do this on a test site, so don't be surprised if you log in and you see something new or something else has been rearranged. Hopefully the tweaks won't take too long and if you have a suggestion please let me know.
We'll have a "website warming" party in January to officially launch our new home, so check the forum for details, I'll be posting them as soon as they are finalised.
It's been a long, long time coming and a lot of hard work. Thomas tried to calculate the hours we've all put into getting this website up and running, making sure we've caught everything from the old site before it disappears forever. He gave up at around 11,760! And yes, that's solid hours working on just moving stuff over, building new pages, checking links, stressing about moving the member database (oops I mean testing before moving), building and refining new tools, copying images, uploading data and a whole lot of other things we've been working on solidly for the last 9 weeks.
It's done now. Just a few final steps to quadruple check everything has shifted as it should have and we'll be well and truly established in our new home.
Like any move to a new home, there are a few things that are different about our new home.
The first is your log in. If you're reading this then you've seen that the Member Login box is located at the top right hand side of the website homepage.
Click on the member log in and a green box appears. Here you enter your email address (and it must be the one on record for you) and your password. You can also choose at this point to day logged in (don't do this if other people use your computer). You can also update your profile, check your membership details and find your membership expiry date by clicking on My Profile. Or you can choose to log out.
When you log in you'll be taken to the Member Centre homepage and that black member log in disappears. In its place you'll see your name and a log out link.
This page is not visible unless you are logged in. It also has direct links to all your Member Centre tools, or you'll find the major tools in the menu on the left hand side of your page.
I'll be adding lots of new tools and features over the next couple of months. There are so many I'm "drip feeding" them so you don't get overwhelmed so keep logging in regularly to find them.
The design has been streamlined, after hearing from Cheapskaters about what they'd like to see. That was a bit of an effort because there is a lot of information that had to be reorganised into more user-friendly chunks
I suggest everyone go and have another look at the Getting Started page, even if you're a long-time Cheapskater. A little reminder/refresher will help you find your way around our new home.
And as with all new homes, we'll be renovating and remodelling to get things just right. It's hard to do this on a test site, so don't be surprised if you log in and you see something new or something else has been rearranged. Hopefully the tweaks won't take too long and if you have a suggestion please let me know.
We'll have a "website warming" party in January to officially launch our new home, so check the forum for details, I'll be posting them as soon as they are finalised.